English Explanatory Dictionary

ma'abara

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of refugee camp in Israel during the early 1950s, used mostly by new immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East.

Word forms

ma'abara ma'abarot ma'abaroth ma'abaras

Etymology

From Hebrew מעבר.

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